Robert Aldama

Central Defender - Retired
18 Apr 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Robert Aldama

19 Edition

The General Caballero Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Aldama out for 17 days

The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Robert Aldama, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Tempers go at General Caballero

Ramón Ortigoza was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

General Caballero agree a free transfer for Thomas Barrios

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The General Caballero Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

General Caballero lose Robert Aldama

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at General Caballero

Ramón Ortigoza was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

When it matters, Ramón Ortigoza plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • Squad Questions about Paulo Lugo on the training pitch
1 Edition

The General Caballero Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Paulo Lugo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulo Lugo commits to General Caballero for another 2 years.

Squad

Ramón Ortigoza in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at General Caballero this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

14 new faces, and General Caballero are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

General Caballero bring in an old head

Jorge Aquino is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

Experience through the door at General Caballero

Robert Aldama arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

General Caballero bring in an old head

Ramón Ortigoza is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief